Sqlmesh

:sparkles: Features
* Unpin motherduck duckdb version (2628) treysp
* Print warning when except_ is used in STAR, add exclude arg (2639) georgesittas
* Introduce support for 'pre ping' to detect stale or lost connections (2632) izeigerman
* Github CI/CD Bot Allow Overriding PR Environment Name (2643) eakmanrq

:beetle: Bug fixes
* Disable analytics in tests (2620) izeigerman
* Do not visit nodes that are not tables during CLL generation (2622) vchan
* Don't lower selection (2623) eakmanrq
* Include virtual properties into the metadata hash (2630) izeigerman
* Take batch_size into account when filling snapshots for INCREMENTAL_BY_UNIQUE_KEY models (2616) erindru
* Hive version in the Airflow docker image izeigerman

:hammer_and_wrench: Refactor
* Clean up some sections in the unit test module (2619) georgesittas
* Simplify conditional statement parsing (2627) georgesittas

:broom: Chore
* Add user agent to databricks connections (2625) eakmanrq
* Update databricks documentation wording (2624) eakmanrq
* Pass dialect in builders used within sushi python models (2629) georgesittas
* Bump sqlglot to v23.16.0 (2633) georgesittas
* Bump sqlglot to v23.17.0 (2636) georgesittas
* Enforce consistent indentation in docs (2638) georgesittas
* Refactor unit test docs (2637) georgesittas

:alien: Other
* Add note about vscode widgets and ipywidgets version (2621) treysp
* Add model start default value to configuration reference (2631) treysp

:beetle: Bug fixes
* Rename 'sqlmesh' to 'sqlmesh_version' izeigerman

:sparkles: Features
* Enable anonymized analytics for the SQLMesh core (2602) izeigerman

:beetle: Bug fixes
* Fallback logic for when the inspect.stack() call fails (2617) izeigerman

:broom: Chore
* Split up get snapshots operations (2615) eakmanrq

:alien: Other
* Add BigQuery Permissions (2614) sungchun12

:beetle: Bug fixes
* Use correct default gateway name from config for tests (2612) georgesittas
* Allow macros to be in windows (2613) tobymao

:alien: Other
* Fix: make macro function argument resolution more robust (2604) georgesittas
* Update icon (2611) treysp

:beetle: Bug fixes
* Parsing of session properties when only one key-value pair is provided (2610) izeigerman

:broom: Chore
* Improve the error message for arguments that can't be resolved at parse time izeigerman

:beetle: Bug fixes
* Add runtime stage to jinja (2597) tobymao
* Ignore non-restateable models and print out a warning instead of failing the plan (2605) izeigerman
* Add support for untyped snowflake arrays (2608) eakmanrq

:broom: Chore
* Support dbt 1.8 (2594) tobymao
* Support dbt 1.8 (2601) izeigerman
* Cosmetic changes to how we resolve session properties for a model (2603) izeigerman

:alien: Other
* Add isolated systems guide (2541) treysp
* Add blue-green deployment (2595) treysp
* 2335 Add support for session properties in model defaults (2596) ciprian-cgr
* Update engines that support environment catalogs (2606) treysp
* Integrate table of contents into left navbar (2607) treysp